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Joe did many other things after the Clash split, and my abiding memory of him, was when he played in a small club in Bradford in about 1990, with the early Mescaleros. He did a barnstorming set of both recent and Clash material, and looked to be thoroughly enjoying himself too.
I love his Mescaleros stuff, though on the album I have he doesnt play any guitar, he just sings.
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I saw him play at the Troubadour in LA on the Golbal A-Go-Go Tour. Has to be one of the top two or three live shows I've ever seen. The Mescaleros stuff stands on it's own in the Strummer catalog as some of his finest music. First rate.
The Clash were "the band" for me growing up. If I had a rock n' roll hero as a teenager... it was either Joe Strummer, Joe Strummer, or Joe Strummer.
